Lanarkshirelass

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I know, I wish there was a local horticultural type group, they'd be welcome to come take what they pleased but to be honest it's mainly full of thistles, jaggy nettles, brambles and lots of ivy which took us an inordinate length of time taking it off the house without damaging the render anyone who wishes is more than welcome to come and inspect for hidden gems lol.

Thank you so much nutcutlet, that is a big relief. In the process of research I've discovered I have bindweed up the top of the garden (silly me looking up at the pretty white flowers and thinking it wasn't all bad). I think if it was knotweed I would have wept!

Won't stop me from gettin a JCB in I think but a great relief never the less, thank you again!

We bought our house at the begining of the year, the back garden is approx 1/8th of an acre which by all accounts has just been left to it's own devices for the past 35 years.

As I stepped outside this afternoon I noticed all of these leaves seem to have appeared from nowhere. Given the garden is so overgrown and we are tackling it as slowly and steadily as possible I am scared it might be the dreaded knotweed. I know someone in the neighbouring street has it on the boundary of a forrest and their garden.

There do not appear to be any flowers on it. It seems to have just sprouted in the last month or so I would imagine. There is a long branch like shoot which I have photographed and I was hopeful that this might be a tree or something (we had about 20 odd untendered trees which we felled).